TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 40, Number 1
Winter 2014
ARTICLES
The “Matsukata Deflation” Reconsidered:
Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881–85
STEVEN J. ERICSON {abstract}
The “Devil” in the Heart: Enchi Fumiko’s Onnamen and the Uncanny
MICHAEL C. BROWNSTEIN {abstract}
Censorship, Academic Factionalism, and University Autonomy in Wartime Japan: The Yanaihara Incident Reconsidered
TAKASHI SHOGIMEN {abstract}
The Discourse of Intermarriage in Colonial Taiwan
EIKA TAI {abstract}
REVIEWS
Bamba and Haight, Child Welfare and Development: A Japanese Case Study
SUSAN D. HOLLOWAY
Ronald and Alexy, eds., Home and Family in Japan: Continuity and Transformation
MERRY WHITE
Dusinberre, Hard Times in the Hometown: A History of Community Survival in Modern Japan
BRIAN PLATT
Brumann, Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past
MARTIN DUSINBERRE
Christy, A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography, 1910–1945
MICHAEL DYLAN FOSTER
Rabson, The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within
GABRIELE VOGT
Figal, Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa
DAVINDER L. BHOWMIK
Knight, Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops Are Managed for Tourism in Japan
DAVID S. SPRAGUE
McCallum, Hakuhō Sculpture
LORI MEEKS
Wakabayashi, The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
ELIZABETH HORTON SHARF
Glassman, The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
SARAH HORTON
Lillehoj, Art and Palace Politics in Early Modern Japan, 1580s–1680s
ANDREW L. MASKE
Brown, Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan
ETHAN ISAAC SEGAL
Iwasawa, Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity
GARY L. EBERSOLE
Screech, Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan
JAMES T. ULAK
Fukuoka, The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-century Japan
ALISTAIR SWALE
Winther-Tamaki, Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955
GENNIFER WEISENFELD
Starrs, ed., Rethinking Japanese Modernism
ANGELA YIU
Hutchinson, Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self
IRMELA HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT
Vincent, Two-timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction
JOHN WHITTIER TREAT
Suganuma, Contact Memories: The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures
GARY LEUPP
Frühstück and Walthall, eds., Recreating Japanese Men
MARK MCLELLAND
McLelland, Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation
SARAH FREDERICK
Dorman, Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan
NANCY STALKER
Fisker-Nielsen, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito
DANIEL A. MÉTRAUX
Shamoon, Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan
KAZUMI NAGAIKE
Minamida and Tsuji, eds. (Stickland, trans.), Pop Culture and the Everyday in Japan: Sociological Perspectives
AKIKO HASHIMOTO
Kushner, Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen—Japan’s Favorite Noodle Soup
TIMOTHY Y. TSU
Steinberg, Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan
DEBORAH SHAMOON
Condry, The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story
MICHAEL MCCASKEY
Matsui, The Constitution of Japan: A Contextual Analysis
KAZUHIRO TAKII
Schoppa, ed., The Evolution of Japan’s Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change
ETHAN SCHEINER
Oka, Policy Entrepreneurship and Elections in Japan: A Political Biography of Ozawa Ichiro
AURELIA GEORGE MULGAN
Sasada, The Evolution of the Japanese Developmental State: Institutions Locked in by Ideas
GENE PARK
Itoh, Pioneers of Sino-Japanese Relations: Liao and Takasaki
PAULA S. HARRELL
Itoh, The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Forgotten Architect of Sino-U.S. Rapprochement
DAQING YANG
Mikanagi, Masculinity and Japan’s Foreign Relations
HUGO DOBSON
Schiltz, The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937
RICHARD J. SMETHURST
Garon, Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves
MARK METZLER
Fu, An Emerging Non-regular Labour Force in Japan: The Dignity of Dispatched Workers
ROSS MOUER
Sato and Imai, eds., Japan’s New Inequality: Intersection of Employment Reforms and Welfare Arrangements
KAORI H. OKANO
Miura, Welfare through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan
GREGORY J. KASZA
Yamagishi, War and Health Insurance Policy in Japan and the United States: World War II to Postwar Reconstruction
AKIHITO SUZUKI
Taplin and Lawman, eds., Mental Health Care in Japan
YUKO KAWANISHI
Kitanaka, Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress
SUSAN L. BURNS